Known For
Directing
Born
Jan 01, 1956
Place of Birth
Yunnan, China
Credits
37 titles
Wu Wenguang
Biography
Wu was born in south-western China’s Yunnan province in 1956. After graduating from high school in 1974, Wu was send to the countryside, where he worked as farmer for four year. Between 1978 and 1982, he studied Chinese Literature in Yunnan University. After the University, Wu worked as a teach at a junior high school for three years, and later, he worked in the television as a journalist for four years. Wu left the television, moved to Beijing in 1988 to be an independent documentary filmmaker, freelance writer and creator and producer of dance/theater. Wu has completed documentaries: Bumming in Beijing (1990), 1966, My Time in the Red Guards (1993), Jiang Hu: Life on the Road (1999), Fuck Cinema (2005), Bare Your Staff (2010), Treating (2010), Because of Hunger (2013), Investigating My Father (2016), Autobiography: Pass Through (2017), Autobiography: Struggle (2018) Autobiography: Fear (2019), Riding Through (2020), and has screened in many film festivals in the world. Wu also has created some short video, which like Diary: Snow, 21 Nov, 1998 (1999), Public Space (2000), Search: Hamlet in China (2002). Wu had been created in theater, which like Treating (2009), Memory: Hunger (2010), Investigating My Father (2013) and Reading Hunger (2016), Reading Father (2019) Also Wu had some no-fiction books published (Bumming in Beijing, 1966, Revolution Scene, Report on Jianghu) In 2005, Wu found the Village Documentary Project, and in 2010, found the Folk Memory Project .
Known For
Filmography
Action 2024
Director
My Hong Kong Diaries in 2022
Editorial Consultant
Autobiography : Fly
Director
Luo Luo’s Fear
Self
The Monument
Self
Autobiography: Evidence
Self
Autobiography: Struggles
Director
之间
Director
Autobiography: Pass Through
Self
Investigating My Father
Director
Haze and Fog
The Old Man
Because of Hunger: Diary 1 by Wu
Director
Revolution in Baiyun Village
Producer
Children's Village
Producer
Huamulin 2012
Producer
Shuangjing Village, I'm your grandson
Producer
Luo Village: Pitiless Earth and Sky
Producer
Attacking Zhanggao Village
Producer
Luo Village: I and Ren Dingqi
Producer
Back to Huamulin
Producer
Satiated Village
Producer
Bare Your Stuff
Director
Treatment
Director
My Grandpa's Winter
Producer
China Villager Documentary Project: China Village Self-Governance Film Project
Producer
Fuck Cinema
You Are Called Outlander
Director
Sweat
Doctor
Dance with Farm Workers
Director
Search for Hamlet
Director
Jiang Hu: Life on the Road
Editor
At Home in the World
Director
A Film Is Stopped
self
1966, My Time in the Red Guards
Director
Bumming in Beijing: The Last Dreamers
Director
The Chinese
Director
Fifty Kilometers from the Shenzhen-Zhongshan Bridge, Two Drunken Pigeons Are Dancing